"If Col. Lang would be willing to give us a place on his site, I thought it might give us amateur military historians a place to discuss and compare our notes about these disastrous military campaigns."
I am establishing a thread for this purpose on "The Athenaeum." I consider an essentially academic discussion to be more appropriately placed there.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/the_athenaeum/
W. Patrick Lang
CNN is reporting that 250 to 300 “Gunmen” have been killed at al-Najaf in heavy fighting.
http://www.cnn.com/